"Balancing and Coupling"
Tobias Pils
David Kordansky Gallery
5130 W. Edgewood Pl. Los Angeles, CA 90019 United States
Tel. 323.935.3030 Fax. 323.935.3031 e-mail:
January 27 > February 10, 2021
David Kordansky Gallery is pleased to announce Tobias Pils: Balancing and Coupling, an online solo exhibition featuring two new paintings by the Vienna-based artist. The show will open in the gallery's Online Viewing Room at DavidKordanskyGallery.com at 8 a.m. Pacific Time on January 27, and will remain on view through February 10, 2021.
Tobias Pils produces paintings that are bracingly contemporary. The two paintings featured in this in-depth look at Pils' work—Balancing and Coupling 1—speak in both metaphoric as well as concrete terms to the fullest range of issues animating the medium. This includes the irresolvable tensions between figuration and abstraction and the ongoing dilemmas about where and how painting functions on individual and collective levels. But the two works also focus attention on the contemporary moment in even more immediate ways, since they arise from a heightened sense of how a painting emerges in real-time, brushstroke by brushstroke, thought by thought, and feeling by feeling. The paintings exemplify Pils' approach to each aspect of his process as an opportunity for inquiry. They demonstrate, for instance, how Pils, through confining himself to a grisaille palette, is able to evoke subtleties that get to the core of what it means to paint with color. Balancing, with its dark background and looming lunar presence, is a "night" painting while Coupling 1 may be considered a "daytime" one with its frank depiction of bodies engaged in acts of communion that could be physical, spiritual, or ritual. Full of hybrid beings and allegorical landscapes, as well as passages of dissonant abstraction and subtle brushwork, Pils' new work evokes the paradoxes that characterize life, consciousness, and art as vital, unpredictable phenomena.
In 2020, a large-scale installation of paintings by Tobias Pils (b. 1971, Linz, Austria) was inaugurated at Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany, and a major fresco was installed at the Renzo Piano-designed campus of École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop, Germany (2017); Le Consortium, Dijon, France (with Michael Williams, 2017); Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas (2016); and Secession, Vienna (2013), among other institutions. Recent group shows include Picasso et la bande dessinée, Musée Picasso, Paris (2020); Jay DeFeo – The Ripple Effect, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado (2018); and Spiegelnde Fenster, 21er Haus, Vienna (2017). His work is part of the permanent collections of the Albertina Museum, Vienna; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; and Le Consortium, Dijon, France, among other institutions. Pils lives and works in Vienna.
Tobias Pils produces paintings that are bracingly contemporary. The two paintings featured in this in-depth look at Pils' work—Balancing and Coupling 1—speak in both metaphoric as well as concrete terms to the fullest range of issues animating the medium. This includes the irresolvable tensions between figuration and abstraction and the ongoing dilemmas about where and how painting functions on individual and collective levels. But the two works also focus attention on the contemporary moment in even more immediate ways, since they arise from a heightened sense of how a painting emerges in real-time, brushstroke by brushstroke, thought by thought, and feeling by feeling. The paintings exemplify Pils' approach to each aspect of his process as an opportunity for inquiry. They demonstrate, for instance, how Pils, through confining himself to a grisaille palette, is able to evoke subtleties that get to the core of what it means to paint with color. Balancing, with its dark background and looming lunar presence, is a "night" painting while Coupling 1 may be considered a "daytime" one with its frank depiction of bodies engaged in acts of communion that could be physical, spiritual, or ritual. Full of hybrid beings and allegorical landscapes, as well as passages of dissonant abstraction and subtle brushwork, Pils' new work evokes the paradoxes that characterize life, consciousness, and art as vital, unpredictable phenomena.
In 2020, a large-scale installation of paintings by Tobias Pils (b. 1971, Linz, Austria) was inaugurated at Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany, and a major fresco was installed at the Renzo Piano-designed campus of École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop, Germany (2017); Le Consortium, Dijon, France (with Michael Williams, 2017); Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas (2016); and Secession, Vienna (2013), among other institutions. Recent group shows include Picasso et la bande dessinée, Musée Picasso, Paris (2020); Jay DeFeo – The Ripple Effect, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado (2018); and Spiegelnde Fenster, 21er Haus, Vienna (2017). His work is part of the permanent collections of the Albertina Museum, Vienna; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; and Le Consortium, Dijon, France, among other institutions. Pils lives and works in Vienna.
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